From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 12 08:37:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1172C106567C; Mon, 12 May 2008 08:37:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-stable@mawer.org) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out1.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out1.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.108]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB728FC16; Mon, 12 May 2008 08:37:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-stable@mawer.org) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjEBAFuXJ0jLzq3r/2dsb2JhbAAIqV4 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,472,1204470000"; d="scan'208";a="327956563" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.24.1.1]) ([203.206.173.235]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out1.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 12 May 2008 16:07:02 +0800 Message-ID: <4827FA43.1050006@mawer.org> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 18:05:23 +1000 From: Antony Mawer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Chadwick References: <339469.80542.qm@web26912.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <20080512054624.GA660@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20080512054624.GA660@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Daniels Subject: Re: 7.0 issues fixed? upgrade timing? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 08:37:11 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: ... >> [20080229] A change in the way that FreeBSD sends TCP options has been reported to cause odd interactions with some cable modem routers. While this issue is still under investigation, a change has been committed to HEAD that returns the option processing to that of FreeBSD 6. So far, this change has shown some promising results. > > Do you have more details on this? Open PR, or a thread I can read? I'm > thinking it might be related to the net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 sysctl, but I'm > not sure. See here: http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.net/browse_thread/thread/03e3965192fbc64c/48e037ab2717c7dd?lnk=raot It's fixed in RELENG_7 as far as I'm aware: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/tcp_output.c#rev1.141.2.5 but there was talk of it being an errata candidate for RELENG_7_0, which doesn't look like has happened just yet. --Antony